Nicholson Peninsula
Nicholson Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula about 15 nautical miles long, between Couzens Bay and Matterson Inlet on the Shackleton Coast on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Nicholson Peninsula
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-80.71667° or 80° 43′ southLongitude
160° eastElevation
638 metres (2,093 feet)Named after
Captain M.W. NicholsonOpen location code
2VF272M2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 10574209185OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsulaGeoNames ID
6622243Wikidata ID
Q2680704
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nicholson Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Chinese: “尼科爾森半島”
- German: “Nicholson-Halbinsel”
- Italian: “Penisola Nicholson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Norwegian: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Swedish: “Nicholson Peninsula”
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